Rossi’s philosophy about politics is as pragmatic as his ideas are radical. “We should reach for the highest rung in the ladder of progress, but take the next highest one if that’s all we can achieve in the immediate term,” he says. Thus even if Rossi doesn’t win the mayor’s office, he hopes his run will get the second best result: changing the culture of electoral politics in the city he calls home.

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Olympia For All

We started this work not to win one election and go away, but to get people engaged for the long haul.

We’re a group of people who have been active in our community for years, decades even, and we’ve seen how poorly government works when the people aren’t engaged in the process.

We strive to engage, educate, and empower young people who have never voted because they don’t see the point, people of color who don’t get involved because they’ve been pushed to the side by the system, LGBTQ people who don’t trust the system because they’ve been too often ignored by it – people who are poor, working class, homeless, etc, who have become marginalized by a system that benefits only those with privilege.​